True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur plans miscarry because they have no aim.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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